Liberty Activism

Alas, the Admiral has been negligent in his writing activities! For I have been buried deep in R'lyeh, and it took the calling of freemen to convince me that I must venture forth among the landed statists.

We gathered ourselves at Starbucks in Brea, under the auspices of planning out some activism. In attendance, were some political representatives for a local chapter of Young Americans for Liberty, a representative from the Leadership Institute Adam Weinburg, and an enthusiastic rallier Freedom Frank. All of whom had good advice how to spread the word of liberty and freedom.

For example, it helps to be able to converse in such a way that you do not alarm the people around you. The conversation and spreading of liberty happens best when you are able to lead your statist friends down the garden path of freedom. Keep up the social appearances and conversational graces so that you do not become pigeonholed as "that crazy idealistic freedom guy". Depending on the receptivity of your audience, it may be counteractive to try and spread the message by sailing our ship of ideas around with the Jolly Roger Black Flag of Anarchism flying in full sight.

Much to The Admiral's delight, we convened such a large gathering of libertines (yes we did discuss moral subjectivism) that we ended up homesteading all of the outdoor furniture at Starbucks! About 20 people attended, and half were fully anarchist! Hip, hip, hurrah! If those minimalist sate people keep showing up we'll get them converted for sure.

To promote liberty, freedom, and voluntarism, we discussed how to better our conversational approach. The fellows at the Leadership Institute offer many mechanisms, and even host some media and communication training courses. According to Adam Weinber, "You can learn these techniques from your sworn enemies." The political strategy that works for the statists can surely be made to serve the purposes of freedom. My personal friend Terry (who braved the public transportation system for a few hours just to attend) also recommends that advertising libertarian ideas to Toastmasters is sure to smooth off some rough edges.

As a group we also think that events are great fun to attend. Any peaceful activity that rubs government the wrong way, but where the majority of people will be on your side against the state is great newsworthy advertisement. For example, Lemonade Freedom Day is coming up on Aug 10th.

1. Sell lemonade on the street corner.
2. Get shut down or arrested.
3. Profit Promote Liberty

Go Robin Hooding by paying off expired parking meters so that innocent people can avoid an expensive fine. Prevent city hall from extorting those funds!

‘Robin Hood’ Parking Meter Group Sued by NH City (+Video)

Of course, given the prevalence of anarchists that attended, we also strayed off topic and into areas of moral subjectivism, the self-inconsistency of the term"intellectual property" which of course completely justifies learning promotion tactics from our political adversaries, alternative currencies and the nature of market competition for money itself.

It's truly amazing to see so much intellectual wealth voluntarily shared! When you go out there to advertise, make sure to use the tag #LiveFreeOC so that everyone can see the excitement of the limelight!